Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 379 422
Rank change year-on-year +61 +43 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 18 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.096% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.96% 0.85% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 31
10th Percentile £388 £388 £400
25th Percentile £513 £400 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £435 £539
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -19.24% +26.74%
75th Percentile £589 £523 £675
90th Percentile £600 £568 £700
UK median daily rate £545 £468 £520
% change year-on-year +16.58% -10.10% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 8 £540 - 3
Scotland +15 4 £589 +12.19% 1
North of England +21 3 £325 - 1
North West +19 3 £325 - 1
South West +37 2 £588 +11.64% 1
Midlands +18 1 £535 +33.75% 1
West Midlands +11 1 £535 +33.75% 1
Microsoft Clustering
UK

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) IIS
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) OCI
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
3 6 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 6 (33.33%) SMTP
4 3 (16.67%) DDNS
4 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) Database Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) VMWare Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) Wintel Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Support
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Database Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Clustering
2 7 (38.89%) PKI
2 7 (38.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (22.22%) AIX
5 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) High Availability
1 11 (61.11%) ITIL
2 8 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) Resource Management
4 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Content Management
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Database Tuning
5 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Content Management
5 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Search
5 3 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) vSphere
3 6 (33.33%) XenApp
3 6 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (16.67%) Brightmail
6 3 (16.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) WSUS
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
4 4 (22.22%) Data Guard
4 4 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (22.22%) NetApp OnCommand
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (22.22%) vMotion
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
3 10 (55.56%) Dell
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
4 6 (33.33%) HP
5 4 (22.22%) Dynatrace
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) Veritas